益

Translingual

Han character

益 (radical 108 皿+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿金月廿 (TCBT), four-corner 8010₇, composition ⿱⿱䒑八皿)

1. profit, benefit
2. advantage
3. 42nd hexagram of the I Ching

Derived characters

• 溢

References

• KangXi: page 793, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22972
• Dae Jaweon: page 1208, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2560, character 6
• Unihan data for U+76CA

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		益

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jik¹
• Min Nan (POJ): ek / iah

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
    • Wade-Giles: i⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
    • IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jik¹
    • Yale: yīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jik⁷
    • IPA ^(key): /jɪk̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ek / iah
    • Tâi-lô: ik / iah
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɪk̚³²/, /iaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɪk̚³²/, /iaʔ³²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (益, reconstructed)
Character (益), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 昔 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 伊昔切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʔiᴇk̚/	/ʔi̯ɛk̚/	/ʔiɛk̚/	/ʔiɛk̚/	/ʔiajk̚/	/ĭɛk̚/	/ʔiæk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (益, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
益								yì								‹ ʔjiek ›								/*q[i]k (dialect: *-ik > *-ek)/								increase
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
益					15081					益					錫					0					益					/*qleɡ/

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Japanese

Kanji

益

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. benefit
2. gain
3. profit
4. advantage

Readings

• Goon: やく (yaku)
• Kan’on: えき (eki)
• On (unclassified): よう (yō)
• Kun: ます (masu), ますます (masumasu)

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Korean

Hanja

益 (ik) (hangeul 익, revised ik, McCune-Reischauer ik, Yale ik)

1. add
2. gain, profit
3. plenty

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Vietnamese

Han character

益 (ích, ịch)

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